ポスター番号/No. of Poster：49

主題/Subject：Business

内容記述・解説/Description：“. . . before it goes any farther” / “Tom, it sure worries me when I hear all this talk about keeping wartime restrictions on business after the war. I actually get scared.” / “But Jim, why should fellows like you and me worry about that. We don’t own stock or clip coupons. How business is regulated—and to what extent—those are problems for the big shots. They don’t affect us at all—do they?” / “You’re so close to your job, Tom, I’m afraid you don’t see the whole picture. Why, when I worry about business, I’m worrying about you and me and our families. Any way you look at it, it affects us—and how! / “This old fashioned idea of drawing a line between the men in the office and the men in the plant is a lot of bunk. When you add it all up, workers and management are partners in business, the business of being Americans and keeping this country American. Our problems and the boss’s problems are really very much the same. Whatever hurts business hurts us too. / “When you come right down to it, we all work. We all furnish capital in one way or another to some kind of business enterprise. And we’re all customers of somebody. / “The heads of our business depend on us to produce goods. We depend on them to supply the plant, the equipment, the materials, the engineering, the management—and to develop sales and markets for the goods we produce—so that we can produce more of them. / “As production goes up, costs per product go down. We can make more money and buy more of the things we want. The company can plow more money back into more jobs, better plants, and improved equipment—and the customers get lower prices. / “It’s a cinch that business has got to have freedom from a lot of this unnecessary outside meddling if it’s going to get anywhere—and if you and I are going to get anywhere. / “All of us, from the boss on down, are ready and willing to do most anything to finish this country’s number one job—winning the war—and will put up with almost anything to do it. / “But when our boys come back from the war, they’ve got to have jobs and opportunity. And business can’t give it to them if we don’t give business the green light. / “Take it from me Tom, peacetime regimentation is dangerous—no matter who it applies to. And the trouble is, that once something like that gets started, it grows—and grows. As I see it—it’s up to us, and millions more like us, to stop it before it goes any farther.” / “Peacetime regimentation is dangerous . . . It’s up to us, and millions more like us, to stop it before it goes any farther.” That thought from the above message is important to every worker, businessman and farmer who wants to keep his opportunity to work and get ahead in the free American way. It will appear in the August 12 Saturday Evening Post and other leading publications read by more than 30 million people.

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